Translator: CinderTL
In an unnamed Lesser Thousand World.
Everyone aboard the Golden Crow Battleship was frantically honing their mental state, cherishing this incredibly rare opportunity to cultivate with their Heart Demons of their own choosing.
Just then, the Golden Crow Battleship's alarms blared.
The sound of being locked onto by another Tier 7 warship echoed throughout the vessel.
"Quick! Activate the shields!"
Yu Jin and the others reacted swiftly!
But before the Golden Crow Battleship's shields could fully deploy, a beam of light that pierced heaven and earth, like a divine sword descending from the nine heavens, slammed into the Golden Crow Battleship's engine section.
In an instant, flames, explosions, and blinding light filled the vision of every Cultivator on board.
Countless Cultivators who had been cultivating were thrown into the air and severely injured by the blast.
Those closest to the engine room were vaporized by the terrifying force.
This was only because the attack had been aimed solely at the Golden Crow Battleship's engine, intending to cripple its propulsion.
Had the strike directly hit the Golden Crow Battleship, the entire vessel would likely now be engulfed in flames and destruction, with most of the True Monarchs, True Lords, and Cultivators on board already dead.
"Our Mind Power gave us no warning beforehand! The attacker must be a Cultivator whose Mind Realm far surpasses ours!"
"Void Refining! The speed of this attack was so incredible, it could only have been achieved by a Void Refining Cultivator channeling the power of the Dao to supercharge their main cannon! We've been attacked by a Void Refining Cultivator!"
"Emergency launch! Get out of here immediately! Also, send a message to Swordmaster Li right away!"
"We can't launch! They're targeting our engine room to prevent us from escaping! The ship won't start, so we can only passively take the hits! At best, we can concentrate all our energy on the shields to buy us a few more breaths. But against a Void Refining cultivator, that's all we'll get!"
A dozen streams of Divine Sense rapidly swept through every corner of the Golden Crow Battleship.
Instantly, all True Monarchs and True Lords sprang into action.
Some rushed to extinguish fires, others to repair damage, still others to rescue the injured, and some focused on maximizing the shield's output.
A visible sphere of light quickly enveloped the entire Golden Crow Battleship, encasing it completely.
Just then, the ship's detection system finally locked onto the attacker's information.
The data for a warship immediately appeared on the bridge.
As everyone studied the warship's profile, a chilling realization dawned on them.
"It's the Pathseeker, the warship of Hong Qianjue, the Hong Clan Ancestor, a Void Refining Great Power!"
"Why would the Hong Clan Ancestor's Pathseeker be in the Land of Buried Demons? And if they're attacking us... they must have already found the survivors from the Hong Clan's ancestral grounds!"
Understanding the implications, the mood on the bridge plummeted.
"This is bad!"
In a region of the starry sky over ten million miles away from the Golden Crow Battleship, a crowd had gathered on the bridge of the Pathseeker, the warship of the Hong Clan Ancestor.
The most striking figure among them was undoubtedly Hong Qianjue, the Void Refining Ancestor who had brought prosperity to the Hong Clan for tens of thousands of years.
The Void Refining Heavenly Monarch sat in the main seat, his expression cold as he watched the Golden Crow Battleship, now engulfed in flames after being struck by the Pathseeker, on the large screen.
Beside him stood Hong Yan, the Hong Clan's Heaven's Chosen, who had fled deep into the starry sky after learning of the destruction of their ancestral land.
Lacking a Tier 7 warship like the Golden Crow Battleship, she had drifted through the Cosmic Void for over three years with the Hong Clan's remaining elite forces, yet still remained a considerable distance from the Immortal Great Wall.
It wasn't until Ancestor Hong Qianjue of the Hong Clan ventured deep into the Land of Buried Demons and sensed her presence through a Bloodline Secret Art that he finally rescued her. From her, he learned the truth behind the destruction of the Hong Clan Ancestral Grounds, which had occurred less than a tenth of the way to their destination.
Since achieving Void Refining, no force had ever dared to act so brazenly against the Hong Clan!
Blood debts must be repaid in blood!
In that moment, the Void Refining Heavenly Monarch didn't even bother to immediately lead Hong Yan and the others back. Instead, he swiftly began searching the starry sky for the Golden Crow Battleship's trail.
Finally, in a Starfield near the Immortal Great Wall, he intercepted the Golden Crow Battleship. Without hesitation, he unleashed a devastating blow, obliterating the battleship's engine room.
Next...
"No matter who they are! No one dares to destroy the Hong Clan Ancestral Grounds without paying the price! Killing them outright would be too lenient! Li Chunjun? The Golden Crow Battleship? Everyone involved in this matter will die!"
Ancestor Hong Qianjue of the Hong Clan waved his hand imperiously.
A group of Primordial Spirit cultivators...
So what if Xuan Mi is backing them!?
If Xuan Mi himself wasn't afraid, why should he fear Xuan Mi's subordinates?
Daring to destroy the Hong Clan's Ancestral Land was an act of utter defiance!
"Ancestor, may I personally handle Li Chunjun?" Hong Yan requested.
"Very well. None of these people will escape! Their lives ceased to belong to them the moment they dared to strike against the Hong Clan!" Hong Qianjue said coldly.
Within the Human Territory, killing a Profound Yellow List genius like Li Chunjun, the Star Brilliance First Rank, would inevitably draw unwanted attention.
But in non-Human territories...
Heavenly Prodigy?
What a joke!
Strength is everything.
"Go ahead, do whatever you want! With me here, even if Li Chunjun, the Star Brilliance First Rank, were to break through to Cosmic Light First Rank, he couldn't turn the world upside down."
Hong Qianjue waved his hand with absolute confidence.
"Founding Ancestor, you are magnificent! You are the Hong Clan's greatest anchor, and as long as you remain, the Hong Clan will endure forever!"
Hong Yan spoke with admiration, then led a group of Primordial Spirits off the Pathseeker warship and descended toward the Golden Crow Battleship below.
Hong Qianjue reveled in the admiring gazes of his outstanding descendants, continuing to sit upright in his seat like a warrior on horseback, waiting to savor the suffering of those on the Golden Crow Battleship.
But shortly after Hong Yan left the warship, Hong Qianjue, whose Mind Realm had already reached the Fourth Layer, faintly sensed a premonition of danger.
This premonition...
"The Golden Crow Battleship?"
Hong Qianjue glanced downward. How could a mere Golden Crow Battleship make him feel that something was amiss?
In just a moment, following his intuition, he grasped the truth.
"No! It's not the Golden Crow Battleship... it's..."
He suddenly raised his head, gazing directly into the sky.
In the next instant, a rainbow light that pierced through the heavens and earth, like a divine sword tearing through the Void, broke through the barrier.
The terrifying Void Power contained within it caused the Void Refinement Realm Celestial Sovereign's expression to change dramatically. "Not good! Activate the Pathseeker's defensive system at full power... too late!"
The Void Refining Heavenly Monarch took a step into the Void, appearing outside the Pathseeker. Countless substances surged into his hands, only to vanish in the next moment.
The collision of Yin-Yang Force and Positive-Negative Force at his fingertips birthed an unparalleled destructive energy, forming a pillar of purple light that intercepted the Seven-Colored Rainbow Light, which had traversed the Void and pierced through the starry sky!
This was none other than his signature dao technique, the Yin-Yang Annihilation Finger, perfected by this Celestial Sovereign who had dedicated his life to cultivating the Yin-Yang Dao!
The annihilation energy born from the collision of Yin-Yang and Positive-Negative Forces instantly clashed with the Seven-Colored Rainbow Light that had crossed the Void.
In the silent, dark starry sky, a ripple of perfect transparency seemed to spread outward.
The Void within tens of thousands of miles shattered like a perfectly clean mirror.
Countless purple light fissures crisscrossed the shattered mirror's boundaries, blanketing the tens of thousands of miles of Void and continuing to expand into the deeper reaches of the Cosmic Void.
"Void Refining!"
A surge of furious emotions erupted within Hong Qianjue's Divine Sense.
The purple fissure ultimately proved unable to contain the further release of Void Power.
After the shattered mirror-like surface had spread for a full fifty to sixty thousand miles, the purple boundary suddenly dimmed and vanished.
Can't hold it!
His Yin-Yang Annihilation Finger had been hastily executed and couldn't withstand this Void Bridge, which had originated from an unfathomable distance of countless billions of miles away!
"Who is it?!"
This scene sent a shiver of panic through Hong Qianjue's Divine Sense, causing him to roar in alarm.
His own power was already formidable, boasting nine thousand years of Dao cultivation and Qi!
He was only a hair's breadth away from reaching the pinnacle of Void Refining!
With another one or two thousand years of cultivation, he could begin forging his Dharma Aspect, preparing for his breakthrough to the Dharma Aspect Realm.
Yet this Void Refining cultivator who had suddenly intervened seemed to possess even greater Dao cultivation and Qi than he did!
How could this not send a chill down his spine!?
"Warship, evade!"
He commanded through his Divine Sense, while he himself retreated at maximum speed.
But...
He could retreat, but how could the Pathseeker warship behind him possibly evade in time?
Boom!
As Hong Yan and the others watched, the Seven-Colored Rainbow Light, like a sword, pierced through the Pathseeker warship!
In an instant, flames and intense light erupted from the vessel.
The moment Void Power collided with the warship, the core of the impact visibly deformed and collapsed, tearing apart in the next second.
The sides of the warship arched high, and countless shattered components and metal fragments were flung into the Cosmic Void by the flames and intense heat.
"Founding Ancestor's Pathseeker!"
The Hong Clan's Heaven's Chosen stared in disbelief at the scene of utter destruction.
This was a Tier 7 warship!
A Supreme Treasure whose value rivaled even Dao Artifacts!
The Eternal Light, which had only used a portion of its Dao-infused material, was worth less than half of this Tier 7 warship!
Yet, this precious vessel, a cornerstone of the Hong Clan's power, had been utterly crushed and destroyed by a single beam of Seven-Colored Rainbow Light!
Especially...
The all-powerful, invincible founding ancestor she revered had personally intervened, unleashing the Yin-Yang Annihilation Finger, a dao technique that had made him famous. Yet...
He still couldn't stop the Seven-Colored Rainbow Light!?
This...
A dao technique that seemed familiar, yet she found utterly unbelievable: the Void Bridge!
"Who is it!?"
Which Void Refining Great Power would so brazenly attack their Hong Clan Ancestor's warship, disregarding all rules?
Xuan Mi?
A Divine Spirit of the Immortal God Race?
Or someone else entirely?
She abruptly focused her Divine Sense, extending her perception toward the figure gradually materializing within the dissipating Seven-Colored Rainbow Light that now filled the wreckage of the Pathseeker.
Amidst the blinding flames and the constantly twisting Void, the figure slowly became visible.
And when she and Ancestor Hong Qianjue of the Hong Clan finally saw the figure clearly, their expressions froze in unison.
"Li... Li Chunjun!?"
"Impossible!"
(End of the Chapter)
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